“Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.”
Charlton Heston (1923–2008) American actor
I have tried to restrain its inroads on me, but there are odd corners of my character that have been harmed.
Sunday Times interview (1990)
“Life's most painful condition: to be almost a celebrity.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945) Swedish female singer
Speaking about the two Swedish magazines, translated to English from Swedish, Lyngstad's appearance on Gäst hos Hagge, SVT (1983)
“She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life”
Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer
Source: Heir to the Shadows
Chris Hedges (1956) American journalist
Source: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Rubén Darío book Cantos de vida y esperanza
Dichoso el árbol, que es apenas sensitivo,
y más la piedra dura porque esa ya no siente,
pues no hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo,
ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente.
Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal" ("Fatalism")
Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305.
Chick Corea (1941) American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
"Answer #3" at his official website. http://www.chickcorea.com/from_chick.html <br class="br">Context: I believe that any "awareness" of life is "spiritual" since awareness can only be a quality of the spirit not of the material world or of matter and machines. Only a spiritual being has awareness. But if you mean "spiritual" in the sense of a kind of "celebration of Life", then yes, I write music to celebrate life. I think most artists do, no matter how they themselves describe it. It's the joy of creating. It's a way of life.
“The decisive gestures in life are almost always the simplest, the most ingenuous.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) French writer
A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)
